TRANSIT KINGS (Malicious Damage, UK)
In the summer of 2001 a plan to put together one of the most interesting combinations of artists in the studio finally came to fruition....: Alex Paterson and Jimmy Cauty - inventors of Ambient House (later to become The Orb and The KLF); Guy Pratt (long time post-Waters Pink Floyd bassist, occasional Orb contributor and renowned session player) and Dom Beken (programmer/producer, Orb contributor and long time collaborator and assistant to Guy) met at Gunpoint - the studio built by Guy and Dom at Londons Townhouse Studios... A life time ignoring mainstream boundaries and changing expectations of music laid down an albums worth of music exciting enough to bring in guests Johnny Marr (The Smiths) and Simon Day (The Fast Show) as a result of just passing the basement door to the studio. Working outside the major label system, session players normally accustomed to working with names such as Basement Jaxx and Moby joined the Transits to help create a sound which finally crosses the boundaries between dance, ambient and rock. Work transfered to Jimmys WheelChair Factory Studios in Brighton and after a brief experiment with the name Custerd other projects over ran the four members... ...but the album refused to die...

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